According to the website of the Ministry of Finance, the World Bank announced important appointments. Zhang Wencai, who received a bachelor’s degree in World Economy in 1982 and a master’s degree in 1986 at Nankai University’s School of Economics, was appointed as the Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of the World Bank, responsible for institutional strategy, planning, budgeting, information technology services, and sanctions systems.Zhang Wencai currently serves as the V
Recently, the results of the Rank Prize, the UK’s top science award, have been announced. Liang Junzhong, a 1979 cohort alumnus who graduated from the Department of Physics at Nankai University, won the 2024 Rank Prize (optoelectronics) for his original innovative research on adaptive optics in the field of retinal microscopy imaging. His other research results have been widely applied to human eye aberration measurement, wavefront-guided individualized excimer vision correction, and multifocal
The 2024 China Jilin Ice Dragon Boat Open took place at Jiangbin Park in Jilin City, Jilin Province. The event attracted many excellent teams from home and abroad. In the fierce competition, Nankai University’s dragon boat team won the championship of the 100-meter, 200-meter straight track races and the aggregate score, the best results for the participating teams.In the winter dragon boat race of the 29th Jilin International Snow,Ice and Rime Festival held concurrently, Nankai University’s dra
The Award Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society decided that Wang Xiao-Ye, a researcher at the College of Chemistry of Nankai University, was awarded the “2023 Chinese Chemical Society Prize for Young Scientists”in recognition of his innovative achievements in new boron-doped organic optoelectronic materials.Wang Xiao-Yeis a researcher and doctoral supervisor at Nankai University. He graduated from Nankai University with a bachelor’s degree in 2009 and received a doctorate from Peking Univer
Recently, Professor Fu Xuewen’s team from the Ultrafast Electron Microscopy Laboratory of the School of Physics of Nankai University, in collaboration with the team of Professor Hou Zhipeng from South China Normal University, the team of Professor Yimei Zhu from the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States and others, reported on the room-temperature high-density Néel-type magnetic skyrmions in room-temperature two-dimensional magnetic material Fe3-xGaTe2, and demonstrated novel physi
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a prevalent malignant tumor of the digestive tract, and it is one of the leading cancers in terms of both incidence and mortality. Chemotherapy resistance presents a substantial challenge in cancer treatment and is a major contributor to treatment failure.On January 30th, researchers led by Chen Quan from the College of Life Sciences at Nankai University, Du Lei from the Institute of Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Hu Gang from the School of Statistics
Professor Chen Quan’s research group from the College of Life Sciences of Nankai University, Professor Xiong Wei’s research group from the University of Science and Technology of China, and Professor Wang Yong’s research group from the College of Life Sciences of Zhejiang University jointly published an online paper entitled “PAFAH2 suppresses synchronized ferroptosis to ameliorate acute kidney injury” in the journal Nature Chemical Biology. The paper reported on the transmission factors and reg
The Chinese Chemical Society announced the list of fellows of the Chinese Chemical Society (FCCS) in 2023. Professor Pang Dai-Wen of the College of Chemistry of Nankai University was elected as a fellow.Professor Pang Dai-Wen has studied quantum dots (QDs) for 23 years. He has pioneered the live-cell synthesis of QDs and the corresponding QD labeling technology, and broken through the site-specific quantitative biolabeling of single viruses, realizing the acquisition and analysis of multiple wea
Grüneisen parameter as an important parameter in condensed matter has great significance for measuring thermodynamics, elasticity, and inelasticity of matter. In the study of properties of condensed matter at high temperature and high pressure, the Grüneisen parameter links the elastic and thermal properties, playing a crucial role in constructing the equation of state of matter and studying thermodynamics under high pressure. In the pressurization experiment, due to the slow pressurization rate
Recently, the National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences officially announced the list of approved special research projects for2023 National Social Sciences Fund for Rare Fields of Knowledge. A total of twenty-sevenacademic team projects and sixty-sixindividual scholar projects were approved nationwide. Nankai University hasa total of three approved projects, including one academic team project and two individual scholar projects. The number of projectsof the university hastiedfor the f
Recently, the team led by Professor Xu Wentao from the College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering of Nankai University designed and performed proof of concept on an artificial intelligent cornea with tactile sensation, bringing the artificial cornea one step closer to the human cornea.In recent years, a range of artificial corneas, such as Boston-type cornea and MICOF-type cornea, have been applied to clinical treatment. These artificial corneas perform the functions of human corn
On December 28, the National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences announced the list of major projects of the National Social Science Fund of China in 2023, and Nankai University has seven projects on the list, being tied for eighth in the country. The list of approved projects are as follows:The major project program of the National Social Science Fund of China, which was established with the approval of the National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences, is the top-level and most auth
Recently, Contemporary Logistics in China: 20 Years of Progress and Achievementpublished by Springer, a world-renowned science and technology publishing company, with the Modern Logistics Research Center of Nankai University as the chief editing institution, was officially released globally. The report is China’s first and only English report on the development of China’s logistics industry issued overseas. The report, published 13 times in a row and with over 100,000 downloads, acts as an impor
Recently, the latest research findingsin the realm of photo-triggered synergistic treatment of thrombotic diseases, conducted by Ji Qi, Deling Kong et al. from the State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology and the College of Life Sciences at Nankai University, were published in Nature Communications, a world-renowned journal, with the title “Near-infrared-II photoacoustic imaging and photo-triggered synergistic treatment of thrombosis via fibrin-specific homopolymer nanoparticles”. The
Recently, the team led by Professor Lei Wang of Nankai University discovered that three major meningitis-causing bacteria exploit the same mechanism to penetrate the blood-brain barrier (BBB), and illustrated the molecular mechanism in detail. Bacterial meningitis has a high fatality rate and serious sequela, and lacks specific treatment methods. The research team revealed for the first time the mechanism by which bacteria penetrate the BBB, and this is of great significance for meningitis preve